To the Editor of the "Norra-Cutva Dany NEWS"
Sm—An old Chinese gentleman was seen sitting on the threshold of his ruined house somewhere in Chapei He was laughing hysterically and saying over and over again to the crowd gathered round him, pointing at the same time to his surroundings, "Wen ming ti si kai," The world of civilization," adding in Chinese, "No, the fools' paradise, that's what it really is."
A better description of the situation here and all over the world can hardly be given. Take, for instance, Spain. Are we not to believe that the so-called Republican Spain is white as snow compared with the Nationalists side? The help given the latter is. the worst crime in history, while all that the Bolsheviks have done to help Spain to become a hell on earth is forgotten. The things in Italy and Germany are unspeakably bad, but the Stalin regime is praised heaven high.
It seems to be the fact that those great powers who have ruled the World since the Great War think it is best for Spain that the'"kill priests, burn and destroy" regime must stay in that country, The rule of society is that no bandits or instigators are accepted, but the League of Nations is open to any so-called state, no matter what.its practices have been, and it will never be kicked out, whatever its present practices may be. A blind eye is turned on the undermining in full swing amongst the member states by one member. When a super-idealistic statesman is pushed aside and a more realistic person attends to affairs, a panic is worked up by the home masses and foreign influences. In short, the world is set in two opposite camps the Soviet and other democracies are one, and the Fascists the other. Anyone who cannot agree with this is considered utterly blind in world politics, of which the Soviet's gracious invitation to the other democracies, given some time ago, is the finest proof of "the Reds' high morale and great care df the welfare of mankind," Taking all into consideration, can there be a better definition of our "treaty= breaking" age than that given by the above-mentioned Chinese gentleman somewhere in Chapei: "Fools Para-
Or" Ferrow Shanghai, Mar. 22.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.